Method of simultaneously cutting and sewing shirts and the like



J. P. WEIS.

METHOD OF SIMULTANEOUSLY CUTTING AND SEWING SHIRTS AND THE LIKE.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2. 1919. RENEWED DEC. 24; 1919.

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UNITED STATEISZIPATIENT OFFICE.

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Specification of Letters l atent. I

1 Patent-ea Julie 1', 1920.

Application filed January 2, 1919, Serial No. 269,278. Renewed December 24, 1919. Serial No. 347,192.

To all whom it may concern."

Be it known that I, JOHN Pn'rnn' 7121s, a citizen of the United States, residing at Nyack, in the county of Rockland and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of Simultaneously Cutting and Sewing Shirts and the like, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises the herein-described method of simultaneously cutting and sewing the shoulder-forming seams an of separating integral, successive, shirtforming sections from a flattened tube of tubular knit goods.

The objects of the invention are to facilitate high speed and accurate and economical formation of the shoulder seams with reference to the neck openings and in such a way as to eliminate the present hand trimming of theneck openings; and to produce in a flattened tube a succession of shirtforming integral shoulder-seamed portions that may be transversely severed one from another by a subsequent cutting operation,

In the accompanying drawing forming part hereof, I show flattened tubular goods on spreader members 2 at each end of which the tube is held between a spreader and a spreader supporting roll 3 and a rearward pair of feed rolls 4:. Forwardly of and between the spreader and the feed rolls 4, the flattened tube portion 5 is of normal width, but the spreader acts 'to stretch the flattened tube across its width as well as to hold the two walls of the flattened tube spaced fiatwise apart; and the rearward rolls in cooperation with the spreader keep the widened portion 6 of the tubular goods between the spreader and the feed rolls under lengthwise tension. In this condition, two parallel lines of stitching are formed at right-angles to the line or path of feed or of the goods in each margin thereof, both lines of stitching on each margln extending only part way toward the neck opening area which is midway between the four seams. These four seams are severally indicated by 7 in dotted lines which at 8, 8 show the original folded edges of the flattened tube, and opposed transverse marginal cuts along the line 9 through the opposed walls and edge of the flattened tubular goods, at each side of the flattened tube, permit a gaping actlon of the material so that inwardly of each folded edge of the flattened and marginally cut tube the cut and seamed margins yawn apart forming opposed V-shaped spaces 10 as shown; and in machine practice two such marginal cuts are made simultaneously by cutters, one at one side and the other at the leave the goods, the opposite edges of the sides of each V-shaped space 10 are adjacently severally seamed along the lines 9, forming two opposed shoulder seams transversely of each margin of the flattened tube. The portion of the goods between the spreader and feed rolls comprises the upper portions of two integral shirt-forming portions of the goods. I

In practice the armholes 11 and the front openings 12 are formed in the progress of the goods through the machine. The apices of the V-shaped spaces 10 opposedly terminate at each side of a portion of the goods indicated by the circular dotted line 12, where the goods are subsequently out out to form neck openings; but in the immediate operation as the goods travel through the machine, the goods are completely severed along the line 9-9, between the points 9?, 9 shown in the dotted circle, whereby two shirts are produced for. finishing operations. The first two cuts are marginal cuts to allow the goods to yawn to produce the clearances or V-spaces 10; and the final cut-01f or separation of the two shirt bodies is at the The method of cutting and sewing shirts from tubular goods, consistin in flattening and laterally distending the tiibe; in putting the flattened and under lengthw se distention; and while such The cutting and laterally distended tube tube is in its flattened, laterally and length Wise distended condition, in formingopposed shoulder-forming cuts through the opposite margins of the tube, each cut extending from an edge of the tube part Way t0 the place of the neck opening; and in simultaneously with the making of each I my hand this 27th day of December, 1918.

marginal cut, forming a seam at each side of each cut; andin thereafter transversely severing the so-cut and shoulder-seamed por tions of the tube along a line intersecting 1 the integral portions of the goods between the inner ends of the two seams on each side of said tube. V a. V Z

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set JOHN PETER WEIS. 

